Thursday, November 18, 2010

Microscopic

As a spin off of one of my other blog posts, this week I was looking at photographs from Olympus' BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition in which photographers and scientists focus on microscopic images. I found this one:
of a rat hippocampus, which was stained to reveal the distribution of glia, neurofilaments, and cell nuclei.
I thought this picture was awesome and particularly pertained to my artist's book, for which I also found this photograph:

which is also a picture of stained rat neurons and brain cells.
And with our minds, we have created our cities and dwellings:


Yet we have so much yet to explore and create.
 I plan to relate all of this to the limitless nature of our own minds, which are relatively unexplored spaces with momentous potential.




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